The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Public Administration And Defence Public Administration And Defence; Compulsory Social Security Provision Of Services To The Community As A Whole 84.22 - Defence activities
0 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 July 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Two major Ministry of Defence agencies are to merge to improve efficiency and ensure frontline soldiers are better equipped. The Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) and the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) will operate as one body. It will be based in three sites in Bristol and Bath, and will see 2,000 existing posts moving to the area from sites across the south of England. No redundancies have been announced, but union leaders attacked the relocation plans and warned of possible industrial action. The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and defence union Prospect pledged to fight the plans which they warned would force skilled staff to leave the civil service. 'Our members at these sites do not want to be forced to transfer to the South West and many will leave the MoD rather than move their families,' said Prospect national officer Steve Jary. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram made the announcement during a visit to the Ministry of Defence's Abbey Wood in north Bristol on Monday. All DLO workers currently located at Andover South in Hampshire, Sapphire House in Telford, Shropshire, RAF Brampton in Cambridgeshire, Caversfield in Oxfordshire and Sherborne in Dorset, will be relocated to the South West. Numbers will also be reduced at RAF Wyton in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. 'I understand these decisions will impact on employees and their families and we will provide appropriate support for those affected,' Mr Ingram said. The decision to close Sapphire House in Telford was met with particular consternation by Unions. Union leaders said none of the staff from the site could move, effectively making them redundant, and threatening the work of the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO). 'Staff can't afford to move to Bristol. These are the only people in the country that can do this very specialised work. This puts at [risk] all the ordering and distribution of equipment for the army. ', said Mike Verrick, of the Public and Commercial Services Union.
Sources
4 July 2006: BBC News
3 July 2006: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Defence Procurement Agency/Defence Logistics Organisation, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63745, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63745.
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